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A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)
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mother, Lola left for England with a check home, the only home she ever owned. It
of 1,000 pounds, given her by her step-father still stands today, at the corner of Mill
and six thousand dollars in jewelry. Her husand Walsh Streets, a two story ivy-covered
band divorced her in 1842,—accusing herof ~ building, (now in 1950, a one story,) with
mistonduct. It was at this time that she dethe famous 01d wine cellar in back. In this
cl@éa to become a dancer. She went to Madrid wine cellar, Lola kept her wines, imported
and studied under a Spanish professor. She from all over the world.
assumed the name of Lola Montez, partly t Although Lola yearned for peace, there
co tiiy.with—Captain James. ! In are many recorded stories of displays of her
e first performance in London, the audience fiery temper.
as thrilled, but when an old admirer recogAn editor once indiscreetly published an
ized her, and loudly called, "Why, that's — editorial against her. When Lola found him
tty James," she was ordered never to appear in a saloon, she horse-whipped him. A local
m the London stage again. preacher who delivered a tirade against her
Friendless and penniless, she went to dancing, felt the sting of her fury.
Bruss8E8s, and was obligéd to sing in the After a trip to Australia, she returned
streets, thence to Warsaw, where her beauty to Grass Valley, but in 1859, she went to
captivated the Poles. The 60-year old PoskNew York, joined the Episcopal Church with
ievich, ugly in appearance, and the most ruthreligious zeal, and died January 17, 1861.
ess—man Russia hed produced, offered her an . = = — eeree
estate and jewels, and upon her refusal, had From a newspaper clipping of 1893her_ordered out of Warsaw. From Warsaw she Lof@-made her first appearance inthis
went to St. Petersburg, becoming a gréat™ country at the Broadway Theatre, New York City
friend of His Imperial Majesty, Nicholas I. on December 29, 1851, after having come over
{Shortly artéerwards, adoring Intellect, . in the same ship with Louis Kossuth, the
la fell in love with Franz Listz, one of; * great Hungarian patriot. She subsequently
the greatest pianists of all . times Thetr~ / repeated the several dramas which set forth
ove affair was but short lived. In Paris, ‘ her European experiences in Boston, Philadelaudiences admired her beauty and hissed at . phia, New Orleans and San Frencisco. In 1855
her dancing. Here Alexander Dunas Tell pass' she sailed for Australia, where she was abionately in love with her, and here too she . sent for nearly a year. She then returned
met Dumas’ friend, Monsieur Dujarier, a jour. to the United States, and delivered lectures
nalist. She cultivated his acquaintance in { on "Woman, Love, and Spiritualism." She
order that she might win his paper to her side, afterward returned to England, whence she
but they fell in love with each other and be. had sailed in 1851.
came engaged. In an absurd duel, Dujarier In 1857, Lola Montez appeared at Mr. John
lost_his life, leaving Lola a very 2 oF Nee an. /B. Rice's Dearborn Street Theater, in this
—Iin Manioh, the Ring of BavaTia, Decans ¢= ; city. She commenced her engagement on April.
mitched by Lola when she gained an interview } 28th, the play being “Lola Montez in Bavaria,"
with him in an endeavor to secure a stage 1} whioh I witnessed. I am able to say that
j this production was one of the most insane,
's advisors, and soon the hatred ensenseless and inconsequent performances it
gulfed the whole of Bavaria. Heeding only had ever been my misfortune to be bored and
Lola's advice, the King made her the Countess . disgusted with. She introduced what wasof the whole of Bevaris, endowed her with ai called "The Spider Dance," therein, during
annuity of 20,000 florins, and had ner por= which the figure of the same and the pertrait painted by royal command, and placed it ‘. former's limbs vied with each other in exin the gallary of beauties. The citizens dehibitions of inartistic skill and native unopening./ Antagonism arose between Lola and
at
lievéd her a Staunon enemy, but she had no sightliness. I was impressed from the first
fear, and when the mob was against her, she to the last by the woman with astonishment
showed wonderful courage. At Lola's suggestand wonder on the subjeot of what moral and
ion, the King closed the University, and ormental skill of witchery consisted of, through
dered all students not citizens of the city, a by which she chained King Louis of Bavto leave town. This act threatened his throne, ria to her chariot wheels..
go the King was forced to exile her and take She also appeared during that engagement
away her citizenship. in "Gollies of a Night," and “Rosalie Boget,"
Back in England in 1849, Lola married in both of which plays she utterly and ladivorce from Thomas James was only a separent. In point of fact, as an actress and as
ation, Lola and Heald ran away, only to be a lecturer, in both of which professions I
separated two years later. was a witness of Lola Montez's assumed pro~
By 1851, Europe held little for her. She ficiency, I have from that day to this, concame in the midst of glamour and glory to New — sidered the woman as purely e "Fake."
York, and th : Before the Compller continues on to show
Francisco. jNotoriety and publicity sped a' poth sides of this noted woman's life, the
head of her. In San Francisco she became Good and Bad, I wiil break it up with some
famous, with her Spider dance. She produced findings. Notes on Lola..
Co: ° ier ‘ensynoon, she waar mentably failed to exhibit abaility and skill
rested for bigamy, unknown to her a e ° as an actress of even the most ordinary tal"Lola Ifontez in Bavaria;" in July 1651, she . She was a rather flirtatious woman; she
married a man named Hull, at the Mission Dol' became a beauty at eighteen.
ores, in San Francisco. They spent a great ‘ On her Steamer trip, it is said that
deal of time hunting in the Sacramento Valley. ‘. James, in waking up, found Lola in another
However, soon tiring of Hull, she discarded man's state-roon. twas it Sam Brannon?)
him for a German named Adler, also a hunter. Lola claimed that there was nothing
Before she had time to discard her German lovwrong in regard to her relations with the
er, he accidentally shot himself. = King; that the King's wife was with them.
Weary of men and sick of the world, Lola AY When Listz locked Lola in the hotel
came to Grass Valley in 1852, seeking seclusion 7 room, he drove off, saying as he drove off
end peace. It was here that she built her / in a cab, conceding that he never met up
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